Are the effects of use and disuse inherited? : an examination of the view held by Spencer and Darwin / William Paul Ball.
- William Platt Ball
- Date:
- 1890
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Are the effects of use and disuse inherited? : an examination of the view held by Spencer and Darwin / William Paul Ball. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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